Re: Gnome2::Print binding

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:19, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Using muppet's excellent binding howto, I've been toying around in order
> to get a working binding for libgnomeprint(ui), and it seems that I've
> just god some luck. :-)
>
> I said "toying around" since I'm no XS-expert, and my code will need
> some "peer review" (just being optimistic: probably, you're going to
> LART me with a big stick :-)).
>
> I've been able to port the gnomeprint example from PyGNOME under
> gtk2perl, but there are still some functions that need to be bound, so
> I'm going to work on them within this week. As a sample, here's a patch
> against the current CVS.
>
> And remember: do not beat me too hard. ;-)
>
> +++
>
> BTW: Seems to me that there's some black magic at work, inside
> libgnomeprint. gperl complains loudly that there are some missing types
> (e.g.: "GnomePrintPdf", "GnomePrintMeta") all subtypes of
> GnomePrintContext; unfortunately, they are not defined inside the header
> files, so I'll need to download the complet source tarball of
> libgnomeprint, unless there's some obvious method to wrap them and that
> I do not know. :-)
>
> Kind regards,
>  Emmanuele.

looks pretty good. i just got it to compile and run fine. one of the
tests is spewing warnings (don't know if they're issues or not) and
another is blocking waiting for user interaction.

good work. i'll take a deeper look at it tonight.

where there any places where you found the (gtk2-perl-xs) documentation
lacking, confusing, etc. feedback appreciated.

-rm